"They spent it in simulations. Data channels. Doing and making whatever they wanted. Not so different from the Horizon, I guess."

There's some distaste in her voice. Despite the fact that she certainly understands the value of a place like this, she's not sure she'll ever be entirely comfortable with it. Seeing Shepard turn all her attention towards her, and not the target, she lowers the rifle and lets it rest idly at her side.

"Total destruction and then reconstitution of the biosphere." Aloy says as a statement of fact, though it's difficult not to hear the twinge of pain in her voice--Zero Dawn was able to bring life back to Earth, but that doesn't change how much was lost. "Everything you saw in that bunker was ancient technology."